Oct. 17, 2010

When she thought she had learned to run forward, overcoming the frustrations and pointless expectations of yesterday, how weak of her to keep looking back at that someone who should have been running with her along the way.

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Waiting requires patience

"Waiting requires patience -- a willingness to calmly accept what we have or have not, where we are or where we wish we were, whomever we live or work with.

"To want what we don't have is impatience, for one thing, and it is to mistrust God. Is He not in complete control of all circumstances, events, and conditions? If some are beyond His control, He is not God.

"A spirit of resistance cannot wait on God. I believe it is this spirit which is the reason for some of our greatest suffering."

-Elisabeth Elliot, an excerpt from Keep a Quiet Heart (Waiting, page 134)

anong mas nakakatakot buksan--ang pinto ng isang madilim na bahay na hindi mo alam kung anong iyong madadatnan, o ang toilet bowl sa isang public cr na nakatakip at hindi mo alam kung anong laman?

"Minsan binubulag tayo ng mga sarili nating expectations." -ate menchie, officemate

When God tells you to do something, as long as it's within the limits set by Scripture, we don't have to understand it. All we need to do is obey and trust God to use our obedience to accomplish His will." -Bill Hybels, Too Busy Not to Pray

taken out from the journal

Maybe the Lord sends specific people in our lives to make us cry (literally)--to challenge us, motivate us, cause us to see beyond what we think we are or how we think we are doing.

The Lord is not at all surprised by our responses to every word that this "person He sends" throw on us. God knows where to meet us. We can always find comfort in Him.